Book of Donmon Teith

The Polish exile and the Russian villain were familiar figures in nineteenth-century British culture. This book restores the significance of Eastern Europe to n

A fresh and provocative approach to representations of exotic women in Victorian Britain.

First published in 1889, this novel has two main plots; one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the ficti

Puzzling the Reader establishes the place of charms and riddles in nineteenth-century British literature by exploring the literary and political work riddles pe